Center Enes Kanter, perhaps the last guy in New York thinking postseason — beyond the drunk on the corner stool of a bar on W. 33rd Street — may have run up the white flag on the Knicks’ playoff hopes in the wake of Kristaps Porzingis’ injury.

“It’s tough. We are in 11th spot right now. I’m probably going to stop looking at it because it would just kill me to see us not in the top eight,” Kanter said. “So I’m going to just stop looking.”

So he’s given up? Well …

“It’s never impossible,” said Kanter, who likely thinks you also can carve the complete works of Shakespeare on the head of a pin. “First of all, we are the team that’s not going to back down. It’s not going to be like, ‘Oh, we’re on vacation now.’ We’re just going to keep playing hard.”

Kanter, who intends to play Sunday in Indiana after getting his mouth stitched up again (four procedures, 40 stitches), said he was in contact with Porzingis a few days ago, chatting with him for an hour-and-a-half on FaceTime.

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“He’s of course really sad because he wanted to be out there so bad with us. But at the same time he’s staying really positive, like, ‘Man I just want to get my surgery done early so I can just start getting my rehab and I can come back and play,’ ” said Kanter, who said he was torn up watching Porzingis suffer his ACL injury Tuesday. “All these thoughts were going through my mind, like, ‘It was going to be his first All-Star Game, a big summer for him.’

“He’s my brother. I’m always going to try to be with him and always give him positive energy. I think he’s going to come back even stronger because he’s really hungry.”

Jarrett Jack, whose minutes will dive with the addition of Emmanuel Mudiay, also is a realist regarding the all-but-impossible playoffs. And like Kanter he stressed the need to keep playing hard on all front.

“It sucks, but as a professional the one thing you signed up for is to play 82 games as hard as you can regardless of the situation,” Jack said of the all but extinguished playoff hopes. “It’s tough with the spot we’re in and the guys going down but we’re still going to go out there and try to put our best foot forward, compete and represent ourselves well. We understand what it is. Who knows? Until we’re mathematically out of it, we’re still in it.”

Coach Jeff Hornacek worked with Tim Hardaway Jr. after practice. Hardaway has wallowed in a 13-of-60 (21.7 percent) shooting slump for five games.

“He came back from a big layoff and had a great first game and we all expected that to happen,” Hornacek said. “Sometimes it takes a little while and he struggled. But the last two games I thought he made progress. He got some layups in the one game, that always helps. Last game, he hit a jumper from the free throw line, hit a runner and hit a 3 so I think he’s on his way back.”